Chloe Parkman BBC News, South West Iain H Leach Pete Hurst produced a snapshot of the local picture by extracting figures for 10 local species of butterfly The number of four species of butterfly in Devon were at their lowest for at least a decade in 2024, new figures show. Butterfly Conservation said the number...
Maia Davies & Nathan Briant BBC News Gilles San Martin The small tortoiseshell butterfly had its worst year on record in 2024 More than half of the UK’s butterfly species have populations in long-term decline, a survey has found. The UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme said that 31 of 59 species have had their numbers fall...